Laila El Baradei is a Professor of Public Administration and Chair of the Public Policy and Administration Department, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), the American University in Cairo (A.U.C.), Egypt. She was the Acting Dean for the School of GAPP during the academic year 2013/2014 and served for eight other years, first as the Associate Dean for the School of GAPP, then as the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research until June 2018. El Baradei is the 2024 recipient of the International Public Administration Award by the American Society of Public Administration. She is the Faculty Advisor for the Youssef Jameel GAPP Public Leadership Fellowship program at AUC. She is a member of the Global Steering Committee for Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society for Public Administration, and the Project Director for IASIA’s Working Group for Gender, Equity and Diversity. El Baradei’s research interests are varied and have been manifested in a number of published articles and book chapters in the areas of public administration reform, Sustainable Development Goals, development cooperation management, elections management, decentralization, organizational change, governance, child labor, downsizing, and accountability. El Baradei was a member of the authors’ team responsible for the State of Arab Public Management Report 2022, Egypt’s Human Development Report 2010, 2008 and 2004; Egypt’s Millennium Development Goals Second Country Report 2004, and the World Bank’s Country Environmental Analysis for Egypt published in 2005.